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Have you ever borrowed a digital book? It's for a limited period of time usually a couple weeks, in an app of some sort. That's what they did, that's CDL. They

Have you ever borrowed a digital book? It's for a limited period of time usually a couple weeks, in an app of some sort. That's what they did, that's CDL. They temporarily removed waitlists which did allow more people to borrow a title than they had licenses, as physical libraries closed and as schools tried to get online. It was an unprecedented time. They had the support of major libraries. They stopped early when they got sued. The lawsuit should be dropped.

ApolloFortyNine 6y ago
These two statements contradict: >It's for a limited period of time usually a couple weeks, in an app of some sort. That's what they did, that's CDL. >They temporarily removed waitlists which did allow more people to borrow a title than they had licenses That is not CDL, by definition (lending out more copies than they had licenses). Official source, March 30th: http://blog.archive.org/2020/03/30/internet-archive-responds-why-we-released-the-national-emergency-library/ http://blog.archive.org/2020/03/30/internet-archive-responds... Relevant quote: >And so, to meet this unprecedented need at a scale never before seen, we suspended waitlists on our lending collection.